Physick and the Family: Health, Medicine and Care in Wales, 1600-1750

by Alun Withey

Book Overview

Physick and the family offers new insights into the early modern sickness experience, through a study of the medical history of Wales.

Newly available in paperback, this first ever monograph of early modern Welsh medicine utilises a large body of newly discovered source material. Using numerous approaches and methodologies, it makes a significant contribution to debates in medical history, including economies of knowledge, domestic medicine...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 071909125X
• ISBN13: 9780719091254
• Release Date: November 2013
• Publisher: Manchester University Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 0.72 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.5" x 8.5"